Julie Cassiday

Julie A. Cassiday is an American literary scholar and Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian at Williams College. She is known for her expertise in comparative literature. Cassiday is a former president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

In 2024, her book Russian Style! Performing Gender in Putin’s Russia was shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, and won The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies prize by AATSEEL.

Select publications Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action. Co-edited with Julie A. Buckler and Boris Wolfson, University of Wisconsin Press, 2018 The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen, Northern Illinois University Press 2000 (Russian translation, Academic Studies Press 2021) Russian Style! Performing Gender in Putin’s Russia, University of Wisconsin Press, 2024